OK, it’s not actual art; it’s actually a visualization of the heating and cooling of plasma erupting from the Sun’s flares—and it just happens to look like
an oil painting. SDO took images of one really active sunspot over six wavelengths in a 24-hour period, and then gathered heat data on the plasma. It then
processed that data one pixel at a time, and it resulted in these curious shots.

The image above is just one a few different ones captured by SDO, so be sure to check out the rest to work out which is your favourite. This is certainly
one form of art I’d love to hang on my walls at home.